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From Hebrews to Jews

by Jose' V. Malcioln (Author)

"This book deals with an aspect of human history and experience often suppressed or misrepresented. It raises the question: Who are the Jews and what is their proper place in history? Mr. Malcioln presents to his readers a much more convincing answer than that of other authors better known than he."

- Dr. John Henrik Clarke, author of Africans at the Crossroads

"[Dr. Malcioln] demonstrates the relationship between [African] Black Hebrews and White Jews, Arabic-speaking Africans and Arabs. [This book] is important for members of all monotheistic religions that originated in the same region to understand their own ancient beginnings and their ancestral ties to each other. History as it relates to the common origin of man, without self-serving revisions by European historians, is not a subject most publications and bookstores are prepared to handle."

- Amsterdam News, New York

"This book has a two-fold purpose to demonstrate to African (Black) and White Hebrews and Jews their undeniable kinship and to encourage a better relationship among Israelites through understanding of that kinship. In this seminal work, Malcioln attempts to answer the fundamental question of the Relationship between Africa and the Hebrews or Jews. This historical study will show the contributions made before and after certain periods of Jewish dispersion from Africa."

Jose' V. Malcioln was born in Panama of a Moroccan-Hebrew mother. He has taught in the New York school system many years. He has also taught in Mexico, Spain, Amherst, Brooklyn, Boricua and Malcolm-King Colleges. He is a graduate of City College, N.Y., Baruch College, Columbia University and obtained his Ph.D. at the Institute lbero Americano, Madrid, Spain.

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The Language of Race and the Evolution of Red-Black Peoples

by Professor Jack D. Forbes (Author)

This volume will revise the way we look at the modern populations of Latin America and North America by providing a totally new view of the history of Native American and African American peoples throughout the hemisphere. Africans and Native Americans explores key issues relating to the evolution of racial terminology and European colonialists' perceptions of color, analyzing the development of color classification systems and the specific evolution of key terms such as black, mulatto, and mestizo, which no longer carry their original meanings. Jack Forbes presents strong evidence that Native American and African contacts began in Europe, Africa, and the Caribbean and that Native Americans may have crossed the Atlantic long before Columbus.

"A great piece of scholarship, a refreshing analysis of race in the Americas, and a significant advance in the understanding of Africans and Americans in the ethnic make-up of this country."

- Molefi K. Asante, author of Historical and Cultural Atlas of African Americans

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction 1
Africans and Americans: Inter-Continental Contacts Across the Atlantic, to 1500 6
The Intensification of Contacts: Trans-Atlantic Slavery and Interaction, after 1500 26
Negro, Black and Moor: The Evolution of These Terms as Applied to Native Americans and Others 65
Loros, Pardos and Mestizos: Classifying Brown Peoples 93
The Mulatto Concept: Origin and Initial Use 131
Part-Africans and Part-Americans as Mulatos 151
The Classification of Native Americans as Mulattoes in Anglo-North America 190
Mustees, Half-Breeds and Zambos 221
Native Americans as Pardos and People of Color 239
African American Contacts and the Modern Re-Peopling of the Americas 265
Notes 272
Bibliography 315
Index 335

Jack D. Forbes is professor emeritus and former chair of Native American Studies at the University of California at Davis, where he has served since 1969. He is of Powhatan-Renápe , Delaware-Lenápe and other background. In 1960-61 he developed proposals for Native American Studies programs and for an indigenous university. In l971 the D-Q University came into being as a result of that proposal.

Forbes is the author of numerous books, monographs and articles. He is also a poet, a writer of fiction, and a guest lecturer in Russia, Japan, Britain, Netherlands, Germany, Italy, France, Canada, Belgium, Switzerland, Norway, Mexico and elsewhere. He received his Ph.D from the University of Southern California in 1959, having graduated from Glendale College in l953 and from Eagle Rock High School in 1951. Forbes was born at Bahia de los Alamitos in Suanga (Long Beach) California in 1934. He grew up on a half-acre farm in El Monte del Sur in the San Gabriel Valley and in Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, California.

Professor Forbes has served as a Visiting Fulbright Professor at the University of Warwick, England, as the Tinbergen Chair at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam, as a Visiting Scholar at the Institute of Social Anthropology and Linacre College of Oxford University, and as a Visiting Professor in Literature at the University of Essex, England. Jack Forbes is the recipient of the Before Columbus Foundation's American Book Award for Lifetime Achievement for 1997. He has also been a Guggenheim Fellow.

ISBN: 025206321X